Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-14
catalogue Of the Most Note
worthy Deeds Of Blood Of
the Year 1886.
riders with Malice Aforeholght
Kjlling in the Beat Of Passion,
and Eycusable Homicides.
,, Executions OF the Year-The
70 u,,oman,s Moose Claims a
Long List Of Victims.
1rncbiucs of q Twelvemonth-Mob
Violence Claims a Large Num-
Der Of Victims.


Der Of Victims.
THE MURDER RECORD.
chastity Array Of Crimes Against Law
""' and Society.
JANUARY.
p1,earv, Of thicaro. leadcd guilty to
rfus , y ,. al his sister and mistress. and was
Pc nnncsd to 10 let prison for forty years John
N el ..ans rs dent of the Pennsy lvania Rail-
~ svsteu, in New jersey. shos h inset GIVING
fn isnd 'odi.s OF DR.. Martin White, his vito,
be !, t .,sn oh ldrcn were discovered by neigh
pa Who for. the do RS it was believed that
tii killed the e. others ana comm...ed
,i0i aass;;,, ,tasHo OHIO hanged himself in
Es- .;'3Sst son for homicide. Six conviots.
,o escaped from the Coal Hili lArk.) mine;
ere p'o rfn cnps,red the despela ioes while
NM 1lan;o h ystack: johnson was armed with
sl s,a1IllaLar elod shot un. one OF tho barrels
.;n" useless. John Mngee was sentenced ny
ein -. m' cont to seven years PENAL selvitude
ol'a an attempt to blackmail the Prince OF
.a,e aa james Bait, . saloon-keeper ut Akron.
t a.'' purchased for cents tho handsome
[ife Of Newell stratton. and Lived L hnP-
1itl
ny t,a murder OF his mother, ster, and broth
u Villain VII Slcehun was hanged at Cork, Ire
"a file crime was committed in 1877 to obtain
cases sion of some prop srty. and sheehan was
i,n tbe Eed River section. bent on having IN
o oli time invaded Burlington, Texas; they
u USn themselves hugely, firing promiscu-
Msly until posse of citizens under Sheriff
oot. drove th I'M away, killing four OF the des-
sradoes A ouutrnngulnr duel at Manche ter,
ev resntod i'll the death OF all tho partlci-
bonts-youns farmers who 0uarreled about
rmS,u OF illrenute; liquor inspired tho trag-
Had himself with u revolver, in his fathers
rascnce. rather than bo sent away to school.
Sour members Of Il Polish revolutionary orga-
,zntion we're executed ut Warsaw. Jhck Han
nm md Jack Crowley fought q duel at Houston,
a,as in q tit of jealousy, aud both were
illed
FEBRUARY.
Fines OF 81 each were imposed uron thirty
hreo Cincinnati :.ct rs who performed on sun
Nv Ii, Waco trcX.) hotel j. II. Graham, q st.
auis drummer got the drop" on q rival from
Fhcuco and the latter was killed the deceased
VIM. Limb had declared that "A man VINO
travelled for St Louis house was no good.
Chesley Chambers. noted criminal who.
krnel with club, assaulted q baggage-master
Ind au express mess nGer and ROBBED tho saIe
was sentenced to two yenrs' imprisonment At
[,sislborhood Of zero. nye thieves were
dashed on their bare backs. and forser
vas placed in the pillory for an hoar;
manner Ivy jumping from High Bridge. New
fork. to tie ice below, 100 feet: every bone in
her body was broken. Unemployed men in
London beseged the eutl critics for relief, and
This not bfins granted, u mob of 1000 rioters
billagcd slo!s, broke windows, and hustled
Fsell.to-do citizens about. destroying property to
The value of s.oo0Oo A French merchant and
his wife suicded at Monte Carlo, alter heavy
losses ut gam bling; the Indy drowned herself
and her husband thon blew out his brf u.s.
Theodore P. Rich. of coblcskill, N. Y, tracked
his wife to st. Paul, WHITTIER she had eloped,
aud on coming up with her he killed her and
then suieided.
MARCH.
| Eli Fcarden. Of Hnrriston, Ark, who was
twice ,entenced TO be Hanged for tie murder Of
. neigh 'or, was acquitted on the third trnl !:
his case cost the State $50, o.. Edward John
son, alias Allen Wright. hnd u quarrel with his
employer. Horny c. steadnnn. on a farm near
Lyons, NeD Stendmnn was killed, and John
soH was pursued and took refuge in Il barn which
De defended against 800 men who joined in the
CHASE; tho desperate killed. Chas. p. johnson
and tillv wounded Edgar Everett; then the
Darn was set a.re, md when it sub ided John
son was found partly crc,nated and his body
ldaltd with bullets. In quarrel over
a!lesel cattle-stenling in the vicinity OF Fort
liliott, lex. four men belonging to the Lone
our Ranch were killed and two wounded. At
the fnnernl Of Trunk Mrlkowski Chicago
murderer, from Polish church. IL married sis
Ter io'e on tine hearse to the cemetery beside
me driver. Three dcsperadoes confined in the
newc&s le Pn.j JUL led the locks off their cells
and escaped through hole sxlG inches cut in q
TndoW
APRIL.
;; louis ? Schmidt, Of Freeport, H., who had
oeen expelled from tle knights of Labor for
u 1l't secrets OF the order. hanged him
s sen . ut Davenport. Iowa. Tho Earl Of
N t bury committed suicide in l. ndon by
s sh.,.S himself; he WAS the eighth Earl of
t; tMaespury succeeding on Get. !. 1885,, to the
t 1--WE on the deal Of his father the noted philan-
slolhsi Five lnurderers in Indian Territory
s ssntlsa the gallows by continuation Of their
T nmsa 70 life imprisonment in the Detr it
,auuHe OF Correction; three of the party killed
sa,'. ior plug Of tobacco. Burmese rebels
b cups si re-. E, tho British station ut Meagandet
~, ~ i!a tiie shrrison with cords, ind mnssacred
s "sn. .se persons. In Seward County, Kan
s"n nv Rnrin. q half-wit cd farm hand as
S Tsn! q the wi of his emp oyer, Mrs. jacob
hhitellnhth, and killed both her and her unborn
nI" tae husi and was absent at the tine, ard
r rs, ne beheld the nutilated bodies he became
a 'a.ilS III, MAC. and Gu cidcl with shit .un
81, Hi"sse OF ghbors pnrs, ed and captured Rn-
S sru NEo WIS tied by the neck to fractious
tba , ann dragged for miles over the prairie
wbs, ,s 10y OF the wretch was left uncovered
'uete The exhausted horse fell.
MAY.
to mAcept the Haymarket riots Mt Chicago (lnen-
sna.ia VI which is made elsewherel. nothing
ir,onth !. noteworthy transpired during the
ha"i ,u tlht deserves to be classified under the
JUNE.
.ians quarrel over politics betwcen two physi-
otbas' ut stcphensport. Ind one killed the
Dr. uy cutting his throat; the ad man,
Goven,oe' was q br ther OF an ex-Lieutenant
StnM,sn Or OF Nebraska Mrs. VIM. Sloane, OF
mali syl, Wl son. to spit her husband the shock
h, nn M W. Sloane insane. Forty lives were lost
Chill lection riot in Santiago. the capital of
tstw,o' besides many wounded In m atfray
Jyn,o'o: On prs m guards and soldiers at Bogota.
Otto ~ States of Colombia, one general. several
Nan rs, and thirty soldiers were killed. The
ton Well INLAND Institute sar Buildings. at Bos-
ebnr" Urn 81 ", GOD, We're set on fire by dis
rariyl,a, lnpioye, and destroy ed nine persons
k,i, ad III the hnmes Fifty.one persons we're
e" N election riots in Chill.
JULY.
tp mai schnell. OF Peru, Ind, aged .. was San
70 the reforlnatory Tor one henr for horse
e,raanS rowing band of Turks becnlne SO
at hn,,.a Ut she failure OF one of their number
thew 1Ss supplies near Youngstown. Oh o, that
seo tho her infant to bear. an bold her 70
viii" u ~ while picking blackberriea ne II Louis
then ivy N.Y., that he intended to kill some one
Ii ve .,uinillng suddenly on Samuel Dean, an
the vm,' old companion. he shot him dead
hjmseiueh murd 'rtr went to the city and gave
nth up saying that the shooting was acct
pad'i l, County, Geor ia, where a negress
partv H., sla'v Hoilepbeck provided for picnic
hsvirnu ~ serving up o stew OF human Tesh, she
in her ~. hi.led and cooked child that was left